For the military’s institutional leadership to continue to refuse to urgently petition Congress to immediately end “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and allow openly homosexual and bisexual troops to serve with all the rights and benefits–including for their spouses–of heterosexual troops is to forsake the troops under their command. It is also to engage in conduct unbecoming of officers and gentlemen. Like their refusal to petition Congress to end all restrictions upon servicewomen, the leadership’s refusal to petition to end DADT is to engage in behavior of enormous personal and institutional dishonor and cowardice that violates one of the core reasons the US military exists.
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